Saturday, 11 September 2004 | Coop

[A roll of Super 8 film lasts three minutes and fifteen seconds, and is fifty feet long.]

Martin and I made the film Coop for Flicker, for a project called Attack of the Fifty-Foot Reels. We shot the film in April, a few blocks from my apartment. It was required that all of the editing be done while we filmed (including the titles, which are spelled out using bird seed), and, of course, the film had to be shot chronologically.

We weren't allowed to even see the film before it was shown in front of an audience, made up largely of other people who'd submitted films under the same guidelines. The only changes made to the original film are: an end credit has been added, and the music is now paired with the film, rather than played simultaneously on CD. (Yes, it was terribly hi-tech before.)

See the film. (Here's a smaller version for dial-up users. Watch the big one if you can! In either case, you may have to wait 5 minutes or so.)

[Thanks to Scott and Lisa for their help getting the film online.]